Benjamin Radd
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 4 Mar
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We absolutely agree on that, yeah.
So...
I think what's happening here is that we are seeing an administration that doesn't actually know how to govern.
And they're trying to find a way to grapple back some sense of success in the face of overwhelming pressure.
contributing failures, economic failures, alliance failures, power struggles all over the world.
We are seeing a transition to a strongman multipolar world when we've only ever lived in a unipolar world.
What's a strongman multipolar world?
It's what she was just talking about with Putin and Russia, right?
When you act in strong authoritarian ways and people respect your authoritarian behaviors by giving you safety and giving you security, then that's strongman diplomacy.
And why does that matter?
What happens next?
Because that's not cooperative.
That creates conflict.
That creates more opportunities for conflict, less opportunities for communication, less shared common interest, which is a pathway to more what we call interstate war, which is conflict between states.
Because they're not communicating, they're not sharing, and they're not even reliant on each other.
Therefore, it's easier for war to break out.
And this sets us up for a false dichotomy.
It's basically you can have security or liberty.
You can't have both.
So which one do you want?
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